Green Lanes, London, (N16, N4, N8, N13 and N21) is a main road in North London and forms part of the A105. At approximately 7.5 miles (12.07 km) from end to end, it is one of the longest streets in the capital, possibly the longest.

Green Lanes is an ancient thoroughfare along which cattle were driven from Hertfordshire towards Smithfield Market in London. It runs from Newington Green in Islington north along the western edge of Stoke Newington, thereby forming the border between Hackney and Islington, until it reaches Manor House at the eastern edge of Finsbury Park. It then runs through Harringay and ends at the junction of Turnpike Lane. Some sections of its route carry other names: the late Victorian Terraced mansion houses on the eastern side of the road through Harringay are called "Grand Parade", and through Wood Green Green Lanes has been renamed "High Road" but it becomes Green Lanes once again for another 2.15 miles through Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill in the London Borough of Enfield, until it reaches the junction with Ridge Avenue and Green Dragon Lane at Mason's Corner. (The northward continuation into Bush Hill at this point is now blocked – there is a bus-turning lane there.)

Amongst the sights along its route are Clissold Park, The Waterworks, Finsbury Park, the New River (which follows a roughly parallel course for some distance), Harringay Green Lanes railway station, Grand Parade (a quarter mile long row of terraced mansion houses and shops on the east side of Green Lanes in Harringay), the Salisbury Public House erected in 1897 with its crown to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and Turnpike Lane Underground Station. In Harringay, there are also the sites of the now demolished Harringay Stadium and Arena.

A diverse range communities are included in the areas through which it passes. Some sections are host to sizeable commercial or residential populations of Greeks, Turks, Cypriots, Kurds and Jamaicans. Due to the large Greek and Cypriot communities, the area is sometimes nicknamed Greek Lanes, in the same way in which Palmers Green is occasionally known as Palmers Greek.^[1][2][3]

[edit] See also

• Winchmore Hill - at the far North end of Green Lanes
• Palmers Green - at the North end of Green Lanes
• Wood Green - towards the North end of Green Lanes
• Turnpike Lane - at the North end of Green Lanes, next to Wood Green
• Harringay - between Wood Green and Manor House.
• Finsbury Park - part of Harringay
• Manor House - between Harringay and Clissold Park
• Clissold Park - between Newington Green and Manor House
• Stoke Newington - next to Clissold Park
• Newington Green - at the South end of Green Lanes

[edit] External links

• The Reservoirs Nature Society (TeRNS)

[edit] References

Coordinates: 51°35′01″N 0°06′00″W / 51.5835°N 0.0999°W / 51.5835; -0.0999